Filter Your Address Book on Mac Apple

Attached link to script which filter the Address Book and creates Groups as follows for you to manually clean the mess.. 

Yes the script will not do any delete or modify the data, its just sort the address book for you and you can easy do manual corrections..

1. “xxx No Name” — No Name..  Address Book will Show Email ID is there is no Name

2. “xxx Duplicate Names” — Simple where the First + Middle + Last Name is Matched

3. “xxx Duplicate Emails” — all Contacts with duplicate Email.. in this Group Search for the Email to have those listed.. Warning Do Not delete all because this group contains the original ID also, it all contacts with that email ID.. 

4. “xxx Duplicate Phone” — all Contacts with duplicate Phone.. in this Group Search for the Email to have those listed.. Warning Do Not delete all because this group contains the original ID also, it all contacts with that Phone Number..

5. “xxx inCorrect Emails” — Simple.. if the email Id is not correct, ie does not have @ or . or if there are Space..  It also add email id entered as Srikanth Kamath <srikanth@tskamath.com> because this is not expected entry in Address Book.. change these field to srikanth@tskamath.com

6. “xxx inCorrect Phones” — Simple.. Phone nos with non numerical Char..or not allowed Char

7. “xxx only Emails” — Contacts without Phone

8. “xxx only Phone” — Contacts without Emails..

xxx = your user Name in the MAC..

WARNING:  Do not delete the all contacts within the Duplicate Group.. because it has the original contact also.. hence you have to manually select the actual duplicate one and delete.. 

1 Contact “Srikanth Kamath” with Phone + 91 990 60797, Email; srikanth@anixter.com: Company: Anixter

2 Contact “Srikanth Kamath” with Phone + 91 990 03382, Email; srikanth.kamath@mobotix.com: Company: Mobotix

3 Contact “Srikanth Kamath” with Phone + 91 990 60797, Email; srikanth@tskamath.com: Company: Kamath

All three contacts will be in Duplicate Names.. you must select the Ones you want to delete and delete them, in the example I would select the 1 & 3 and press del.. hope its clear.. do not delete all 3.. only ones that are actually duplicate..

All three contacts will be in Duplicate Emails.. you must select the Ones you want to delete and delete them, in the example I would select the 1 & 3 and press del.. hope its clear.. do not delete all 3.. only ones that are actually duplicate..

1.  Contact “Srikanth Kamath” with Phone + 91 990 60797, Email Work ; srikanth@anixter.com:  Email Home ; srikanth@anixter.com: Company: Anixter

is also listed in the Duplicate Email Group.. because the email is listed twice in the contact.. feature or bug…? for me its a feature

2. Contact “Kamath” with Mobil + 91 990 60797, Phone Work: 080 2266496 Email; srikanth@anixter.com: Company: Anixter and Contact “Srikanth” with Mobil + 91 9900 032, Phone Work: 080 080 2266496, Email; srikanth.kamath@mobotix.com: Company: Mobotix

both these contact are listed in duplicate Phone because they share a common work number.. hence these are not actually duplicates.. but have common numbers.. 

sorry i cannot make the computer more intelligent than this..  yep i can program to ignore these types.. but from my experience with address book.. i use this feature (opps its bug) to filter on company name of people, ie if i have not changed the contact’s company details although i had changed the contact’s telephone numbers..